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Entries tagged with writer's block

Everyone keeps telling me the trick to being a writer is to keep writing. I don’t think they say that to painters. But maybe they do.

I have friends who can’t stop themselves from writing. They don’t understand how I can NOT write. They can tell I’m literate, and I edit their things and help make them better, and I can tell funny story, so they just assume I must be able to write too. But what they don’t know is that almost all the funny stories I tell are just true.

My family is just interesting and funny, and we go interesting places and funny things happen to us. When I’m with them, and someone does something, I say, “you know you’re going to be chapter 57 when I write my book!” We’ve even decided what the title should be. And Then There Was More Food, because there always is. We laugh until we cry, and then we go back for more pie.

I'm going to write something every day. Warning, those of you who read this, I'm sure that will guarantee at least some really bad entries. Similar to this one.

Sometimes I don't write, because I think, "Who cares? No one wants to read that, or will." Sometimes I don't write because I'm afraid someone might read it. Maybe in both cases I'm just lazy and rationalizing.

Rook wrote me a story. I gave her a plot bunny, basically the song, "Behind Blue Eyes" by the Who, especially the line, "My love is vengeance, that's never free." She wrote a perfect Henry/Christina story from it. I'm savoring it just to myself now, but I'll probably let her publish it somewhere too.

[Error: unknown template qotd]Not getting a Federal refund, but at least the State refund is almost the amount that I have to pay Uncle. We will get the Rebate tho! Probably go to the boy's tuition, etc. We are boring people.